Analysis of My Frost-King - Song I
Louisa May Alcott 1832 – 1888
We are sending you, dear flowers
Forth alone to die,
Where your gentle sisters may not weep
O'er the cold graves where you lie;
But you go to bring them fadeless life
In the bright homes where they dwell,
And you softly smile that't is so,
As we sadly sing farewell.
O plead with gentle words for us,
And whisper tenderly
Of generous love to that cold heart,
And it will answer ye;
And though you fade in a dreary home,
Yet loving hearts will tell
Of the joy and peace that you have given:
Flowers, dear flowers, farewell!
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIHJEKE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110 10111 111010111 10011111 11111111 0011111 011011111 111011 11110111 010100 110011111 011101 011100101 110111 1010111110 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 516 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 408 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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